Summer Heat: Mattresses On The Fire Escape

Detail - Under the Burden and Heat of the Day by David Davies. 1890.

Two hours of hazy, heavy, summer heat songs to listen to while getting ready to sleep on your fire escape or while watching the steam rise from the city streets.

36 different acts in this show, here is some information about some of them:

The Jimi Hendrix Experience:

Jimi Hendrix opened his set at the Saville Theater in London with a cover of the song Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Hendrix was extremely excited for the release of this album. The best proof of that is the fact that he learned the song and performed it live just three days after the record's release. On top of that, Paul McCartney and George Harrison were in the audience that night. It is doubtful that Hendrix was aware any of The Beatles were there to see him, nonetheless Paul McCartney has called that performance "simply incredible, perhaps the best I had ever seen him play." The version in this playlist was recorded three months later in Stockholm.

32nd Turn Off:

Many years before 'Electric Avenue', Guyana-born, England-raised, Eddy Grant was concurrently in two bands, The Equals and 32nd Turn Off. The Equals were more successful with songs like 'Baby, Come Back', but 32nd Turn Off has made its mark as a strange footnote to psychedelia as a Hendrix inspired, psych infused, sometimes funk sometimes blues sometimes reggae rock group with a single record to their name. 'I Used To Be A Tiger' got a single release but failed to chart.

Pisces:

Pisces formed in Rockford, Illinois in the late 1960's. The band recorded an albums worth of material but only released two singles in 1968 and one in 1969 (under the name Bruner after 17 year old-lead singer Linda Bruner) before splitting up after their recording studio burned down. The rest of their songs would not see the light of day until 2009 when The Numero Group released the essentially lost album.

Countries represented: USA, Mexico, Canada, England, Guyana, Hungary, Ireland, Scotland, Germany, Netherlands, France.

Inspired by "All That" by Charles Bukowski. Read the poem here.